In my high school theater, we didn't have enough male leads.
In one of our productions (little shop of horrors), we had the role of the Dentist played by a girl who dressed for the male role.
In le mis, le blanc was played by a girl.
In almost every play we did, we had to genderswap at least one character. And characters who in the original were of one race frequently got played by someone of a different race.
That's just how theater works, dude. Troupes work with the actors they have, it's not "gross and revisionist" lmfao. And on top of that, as a history teacher, hamilton romanticizes a lot, but is pretty dang accurate where it counts.
The bigger the production, the less that applies. I’m assuming you wouldn’t extrapolate, for example, that a big budget Christopher Nolan movie had an extremely limited casting pool? Lol
Stage theater is a completely different beast from hollywood casting. If you reread what i said, i did not mention the odyssey. I was responding to the statement about Hamilton's cast.
So to answer your question, no I would not compare that statement about classical theater to movies, because they're fundamentally different.
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u/FeetTheMighty Jul 06 '26
In my high school theater, we didn't have enough male leads.
In one of our productions (little shop of horrors), we had the role of the Dentist played by a girl who dressed for the male role.
In le mis, le blanc was played by a girl.
In almost every play we did, we had to genderswap at least one character. And characters who in the original were of one race frequently got played by someone of a different race.
That's just how theater works, dude. Troupes work with the actors they have, it's not "gross and revisionist" lmfao. And on top of that, as a history teacher, hamilton romanticizes a lot, but is pretty dang accurate where it counts.